Chapter 626 Boomerang
Jinling, Qielu.
The adjutant delivered the latest report to the principal's desk.
The headline on the front page reads:
The Fengtian Incident that shocked the Republic of China and the world broke out!
Is the non-resistance policy correct?
The incident caused an uproar across the country!
The newspaper also reviewed the entire incident in detail.
I don't know where the newspaper reporters got the accurate information.
On the night of the incident, the Lieutenant General Chief of Staff of the Northern Frontier Defense Army Commander-in-Chief Office ordered the Northern Army to "not resist, not move, put the guns in the warehouse, stand up to death, everyone will die for the country".
The next day, Zhang Hanqing talked to a reporter from Tianjin Dagongbao at Union Hospital and said again: "I have ordered my soldiers not to resist the provocation of Japanese soldiers. Therefore, our army in Beidaying has been ordered to collect weapons and store them in the warehouse."
Now, as Ye Luo said, Zhang Hanqing has become a sinner for all ages.
The newspaper also wrote about the non-resistance policy, and the principal was also involved.
Zhang and Jiang should be held fully responsible for this major incident.
"Damn it!"
The principal threw the report on the ground angrily. He was always calm, but now his facial muscles were shaking with anger, and his anger was ready to explode.
Song Ziwen picked up the newspaper silently and advised: "Party Chairman, Shi Liangcai always likes to talk nonsense, why bother? I think we should send people to Shanghai to seal up the headquarters of the report."
The principal said coldly: "Seal up the headquarters of the report? It is indeed easy to seal up the newspaper, but it is not easy to get back the hearts of the people who have been lost. Damn Zhang Hanqing, lost most of the north, and now he actually blames me, saying that I issued the "non-resistance order", damn it!"
"These are all false news from Jiangcheng. At this time, the party chairman can't really break up with Zhang Hanqing." Song Ziwen comforted.
The principal was really angry. Now there is a voice in the country, all demanding "stop all civil wars and unite to resist Japan", while the voices within the Kuomintang are all demanding that the principal step down immediately.
The principal was almost unable to hold on. He had become the target of public criticism and had to step down to retreat.
"It has come to this, Ziwen, you have to go to Jiangcheng quickly and help me contact Mr. Wang. I want to discuss important matters with him." The principal put the last straw on Mr. Wang.
Song Ziwen knew that he could no longer shirk his responsibilities at this time, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will do my best."
After Song Ziwen left, the principal sighed slightly. He already knew that he could not escape the fate of stepping down.
But before stepping down, he had to prepare for his future comeback. After thinking for a long time, he still called Deng Wenyi and asked him to prepare a telegram and have a meal with Ye Luo, who had just returned to Shanghai.
At the same time, he also invited Huixin to have dinner together to discuss business cooperation.
"Stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan!"
"I would rather die than be a slave of a conquered country!"
"Swear to boycott Japanese goods and support the sales of domestic products!"
Ye Luo and Huixin sat in a rickshaw and traveled through the streets of Jinling City in the cold wind.
At this time, students could be seen everywhere in Jinling City, holding banners, shouting various slogans, and holding demonstrations.
At the beginning of the month, thousands of students from Peking joined the students here to hold various demonstrations, and also went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to smash all the office facilities.
These students are passionate young people. Although they act impulsively, their patriotism is real.
They are really anxious.
The north is about to fall, so is it still far from the capture of the south?
At this point in the situation, the local warlords and the two giants in the country are still engaged in civil strife and fighting each other.
Small warlords have no resistance consciousness and fighting spirit. Medium warlords, such as Han Fuju, live in a corner, full of their own interests, and have never thought about fighting against the Japanese invaders.
The big warlords are either like Liu Xiang, who is engaged in territory grabbing all day long, or like Yan Xishan, who is dreaming of returning to hegemony, or like the principal and Zhang Hanqing, staring at North China and other places, fearing that Yan Laoxi and others will return.
In short, none of them is really sincere in resisting Japan.
On the anti-Japanese front, it was the merchants and the public who were the most decisive.
After September 18, Japanese stores in various places were smashed one after another, or ordered to close down, and the public also spontaneously boycotted Japanese goods and refused to buy them.
Who benefited the most from the explosion of Japanese goods?
It was Ye Luo's Ye Investment.
The core industries of Japanese foreign companies are textiles, electronic equipment and daily necessities. The former has been restrained due to the tariff autonomy agreement, but it is still reaping the dividends of the agreement.
After Ye Luo's rectification, the southern textile industry seems to be thriving, but in fact it has been running at a loss.
Before, everyone was persuading Ye Luo not to continue investing in the textile industry. After all, even if he could get dividends, it would not be possible to see the effect immediately.
What's more, Edward and other defeated generals deliberately went to the north to collect the textile industry and the assets after the withdrawal of Ye Investment.
At that time, Ye Luo's reputation as the first businessman of the Republic of China was in jeopardy, and it seemed that he had made a very stupid decision.
During that time, he went to Qing City and Lu Province again, which seemed to be avoiding these doubts, making these remarks even more arrogant.
Then everything was detonated after September 18th.
No matter what Ye Luo thought before, he evacuated most of the assets invested by Ye in advance, which did avoid the risk of being occupied by the Japanese invaders.
After the fall of the three northern provinces, local companies almost became the wallets and granaries of the Japanese, and those who were lucky could still operate semi-autonomously under their rule.
Unlucky enough, the boss was beaten to death by the Japanese on the day it was occupied.
Luo Mingyou, the film industry tycoon entrenched in the north, fled, and his Lianhua Film Company became a Japanese cinema.
They were required to play local Japanese movies every day to provide entertainment for the soldiers.
The worst thing was for some stars of Lianhua Film Company. Some were called to the military camp, and when they were returned, they were cold corpses with disheveled clothes and even incomplete bodies.
Luo Mingyou couldn't bear this kind of oppression, so he boarded the Yip Charity Foundation's convoy returning to the south overnight and fled to Shanghai.
The Edwards who went to the north to pan for gold also felt uncomfortable.
Because of their status as foreigners, the Japanese invaders did not dare to kill them, but they robbed them of all their money and assets and then sent them back to the south.
The speculators who had previously happily accepted Ye's investment and left the territory were now either lying dead in the north or becoming prisoners, and almost none of them ended up with a good ending.
Sitting in the rickshaw, Ye Luo and Hui Xin chatted for a while about the situation and current situation. Hui Xin suddenly became worried when she heard Ye Luo estimate that the principal would step down.
She was afraid that after the principal left, Jinling would be out of control and her business would be even more difficult to manage.
Ye Luo looked confident: "Don't worry, when will something go wrong when I do something?" (End of Chapter)